Kevin Harlan and Super Bowl Director Mike Arnold

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Episode 38 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: First up is Kevin Harlan, who is calling his ninth consecutive Super Bowl game for Westwood One, the audio rightsholder for the Super Bowl. He is followed by Mike Arnold, who is directing his fifth Super Bowl for CBS. In this podcast, Harlan discusses calling his ninth Super Bowl for Westwood One and how his radio call is different from his television work; the preparation he does to call a radio broadcast versus a television one; who he envisions listens to the radio call of the Super Bowl; creating chemistry with his color analysts including Kurt Warner and Boomer Esiason; being critical of his own radio work; where the radio booth is located at the Super Bowl and how that impacts his call; calling games through binoculars versus a monitor; how he defines satisfaction from the radio broadcast versus television; how long he hopes to continue with the radio call and more. Arnold discusses the role of director on a Super Bowl broadcast; how many camera operators he directs on Super Bowl day; the conversations he has with the camera persons prior to the game; whether certain camera locations are more important than others and why; what is unique about Tony Romo from his perspective; how he determines success in a broadcast; how much interaction he has with his bosses on Sunday; whether he gets nervous prior to air; what is something viewers should know about the process, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Ditch and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino. Two guests this week tied to the Super Bowl, but I think you're going to enjoy this because it's a little bit different. First up is Kevin Harlan. He is calling his ninth Super Bowl in a row for Westwood Run. Westwood won, I should say, he's doing the radio broadcast.
0:27.0	And we get into a discussion on what it is like and how you prepare to call the radio broadcast.
0:31.1	What's different about calling this game on radio versus television?
0:35.6	And Kevin just gave detailed, in-depth answers. So if you are interested in the sort of the broadcasting of a Super Bowl and
0:40.1	radio or just radio broadcasting in general, this was kind of a PhD seminar to listen to
0:44.8	Kevin Harlan, Kevin Harlan. So I really enjoyed that. After Kevin is Mike Arnold. He is
0:51.8	the director of the Super Bowl for CBS, so a television director. This will be
0:56.4	the fifth Super Bowl that Mike Arnold has directed, the 12th one he's worked overall. Mike Arnold,
1:03.0	within the business, considered one of the best television directors out there. And really,
1:08.2	really interesting stuff and just what Mike's job is and what that television
1:12.3	production truck is like during the game and Mike's decision making on what you see
1:18.9	at the Super Bowl.
1:20.6	You know, the 111 million people watching this game, Mike Arnold's picking the shots.
1:24.2	So two really interesting conversations.
1:26.1	Kevin Harlan first, Mike Arnold's second,
1:28.7	coming up on the sports media podcast. Kevin Harlan is calling his ninth Super Bowl for Westwood
1:36.6	1, and any of you radio fans already know that. He also called the Super Bowl for CBS's first year
1:41.6	of HD, the Ravens Giants in 2001. So this will be his
1:45.9	10th, the Patriots and Rams will be his 10th Super Bowl call. Kevin Harlan, as many people
1:51.6	know, has 17,000 employers. Some of them include CBS Sports, Westwood One, Turner Sports,
1:57.9	and the NBA 2K video game series since 2005. Kevin Harlan has been a guest
2:03.9	on this podcast before, and I welcome him back to the sports media podcast. Kevin, good of you
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